Articles by Pras Rajagopalan

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  Desolation Wilderness

  White Light Strobing

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2008

  Congrats are due to Desolation Wilderness for choosing a band name that describes their music remarkably well. White Light Strobing’s incan...

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  Fujiya & Miyagi

  Lightbulbs

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2008

  On their third album, the contrarily named British quartet Fujiya and Miyagi return to the muted krautrock pop that made its predecessor, T...

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  Hooded Fang

  Hooded Fang

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2008

  It’s all but impossible for anyone who likes wistful, sweet guitar pop to not fall at least in like with this cracking little EP. Hooded Fa...

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  Japanese Motors

  Japanese Motors

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2008

  On this debut, new Vice signees Japanese Motors bring a West coast laidback-ness to their party-surf-garage tunes. Things get underway at a...

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  Oasis

  Dig Out Your Soul

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2008

  Some things never change. When an overenthusiastic fan threw a full-bodied tackle at Oasis head honcho Noel Gallagher during a performance...

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  Pretty and Nice

  Get Young

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2008

  Just so there's no confusion, let's get this out of the way: Get Young is one of the best pop records you're likely to encounter this year....

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  Solange

  Sol-angel and the Hadley St. Dreams

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2008

  Right from leadoff track "God Given Name,” Solange Knowles declares, "I’m no sister, I’m just my god given name.” If one of the goals of th...

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  Final Fantasy

  Plays To Please

  PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2008

  The Plays To Please EP finds Toronto violin wunderkind Owen Pallett covering the material written by Alex Lukashevsky, of labelmates Deep D...